My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Apparently one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass ' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills Dad's Third Wife Day.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect not even my mother.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Do you know that other than my father I've never had a man take care of me?

My father wants me to be like my brother but I can't be.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Babies don't need fathers but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal and I never loved any other man as much.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun with Paul's group.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Therefore don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side they may be like the hardened one and reproach death itself.

These rules may seem simple enough but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.