The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.