It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

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