The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.