Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

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

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.