We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

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

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.