Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.