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.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.