Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

Quotes

• 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.

• Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

• The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

• There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.