Quotes from Bill Cosby

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

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.

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

When you become senile, you won't know it.

And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.