There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.
Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.
Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.
The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.
To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
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