Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marriage is more impervious to the effects of discourtesy than friendship, I do not know.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.