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

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.