"Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!" [Unknown]

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." [Unknown]

"Fathers, be good to your daughters … You are the god and the weight of her world. So fathers, be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers, so mothers, be good to your daughters, too." [Johan Mayer, singer-songwriter]

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." [Clarence Budington Kelland (1881–1964), an American fiction writer]

"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." [Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011), was an American professional baseball player.]

“Being a father is a choice. Staying true to fatherhood is a duty. [Joan Ambu (1980 - ) is a Cameroon born American writer and poet.]

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms, even when his hands are empty.” [Unknown]

“Fatherhood is a vocation in God’s service, to be not held lightly or frivolously, but with the serious determination of serious men.” [Father Lawrence Lovasik (1913 - ) was a Catholic priest, missionary and author of more than thirty books on spiritual life and duty.]

“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” [The Talmud]

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” [Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement.]

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” [Charles Wadsworth, American clergyman]

“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” [Unknown]

“One night a fatter overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.” [Unknown]

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matter who I remember he was.” [Ann Sexton (1928 – 1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse.]

“Having kids doesn’t make you a father; raising them does.” [Unknown]

“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.’ Then dad would reply, ‘We’re no raising grass. We’re raising boys.’” [Harmon Killebrew (1936 – 2011), nicknamed "The Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder.]

“The father who would taste the expense office fatherhood must turn back from the plane office experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.” [Angelo Patri (1876 – 1965) was an Italian-American author and educator.]

“There are three stages of a man’s life: He believes in Santa Claus; he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus; he IS Santa Claus.” [Unknown]

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.” [Jon Stewart (1962 - ) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, actor, media critic, and television host. He is the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central.]

“Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.” [Robert Downey Jr. (1965- ) is an American actor, producer most famous for his role as the superhero Ironman.]

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t tying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” [Umberto Eco (1932 - ) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.]

“Why is it that you hardly ever see mothers throwing their children in the air? Fathers are special.” [Michael Josephson (1942 - ) is a former law professor and attorney who founded the nonprofit Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics.]

Reader's Digest has compiled a list of their favorite Father's Day stories:

No. 1 on their list — literally!

My father was completely lost in the kitchen and never ate unless someone prepared a meal for him. When Mother was ill, however, he volunteered to go to the supermarket for her. She sent him off with a carefully numbered list of seven items.

Dad returned shortly, very proud of himself, and proceeded to unpack the grocery bags. He had one bag of sugar, two dozen eggs, three hams, four boxes of detergent, five boxes of crackers, six eggplants, and seven green peppers.