Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

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.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.