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

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.