An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

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

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

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.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

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