Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

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

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.