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.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.