Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

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.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.