Your children are neither as bad nor as good as you imagine. But then, neither are you.

In many marriages, one partner can't flirt and the other can't not.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Injure a businessman and he'll try to make you sorry; injure an artist and he'll try to make you inmortal.

The neurotic always believes that his enemies are more sincere than his friends -and more sensible.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer -but not for anything very much, either.

"Pull yourself together"is seldom said to anyone who can.

It's women who make homes, and women who brake them; men just stand by, feeling vaguely trapped.

If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.