Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.