Every baby needs a lap.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

Tigers are not stuffed toys. Cute babies grow up to be unmanageable adults who are often relegated to cramped cages or dungeon-like basements or are simply abandoned.

Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for