Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.