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

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

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

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

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