Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

He who who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.