What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.