The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

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.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.