If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.