Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.