The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

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

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.