The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

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

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

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.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.