If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
How to fail: Try too hard.
Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.
When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.
. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.