On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.