A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.