“A father is a hard thing to compass.”
“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...”
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
“It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.”
“Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable”
“The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father”