Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

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

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

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

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.