I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.