No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

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

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.