. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.