The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.