There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

A watched child never learns.

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.