"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby