Cosby: "We're not raising children with the love that we need to."

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

Cosby: "Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."

Cosby: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby: "Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."

Cosby: "The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."

Cosby: "Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."

Cosby: "I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't."

Cosby: "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

Cosby: "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

Cosby: "Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."

Cosby: "Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first."

Cosby: "Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."