You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed.
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly.