Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.