Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki)