Chinua Achebe: "A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving."

Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do because someone is depending on us.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching, they are your family.

Family is messy. Immortal family is eternally messy.

Where's my cow? Is that my cow? It goes hruuugh. It is a hippopotamus. That's not my cow.

They didn't have to be funny - they were father jokes.