“In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.”

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

“The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.”

“The Word of God says that if a father provides all other necessary things to raise a child and yet fails to discipline him, the child is a bastard and may as well not have a father.”

“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”

“A man must comport himself as a man. He must fight always preferably and soundly with the odds in his favor but on necessity against any sort of odds and with no thought of the outcome. He should follow his tribal laws and customs insofar as he can and accept the tribal discipline when he cannot. But it is never a reproach that he has kept a child's heart, a child's honesty and a child's freshness and nobility.”

“A child shows his toy, a man hides his.”

“An only child alone and wild
A cabinet maker's son.
His hands were meant for different work
And his heart was known to none --
He left his home and went his lone and solitary way
And he gave to me a gift I know
I never can repay.”

“The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.”

“The greatest inheritance that a parent can leave to their child is the memory of his love, otherwise the rest has no value.”