It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

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