Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.