We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

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.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

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

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

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