Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.