If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

The difficulty between parents and adolescents is not always caused by the fact that parents fail to remember what growing up was like, but that they do.

—Marcelene Cox

It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grown-ups can get through a whole day without making a mistake.

—Marcelene Cox

A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.

—Marcelene Cox

It doesn't matter what happens as long as the right person gets the blame.

—Walter Kirn

Neither blame or praise yourself.

—Plutarch

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

—W. Somerset Maugham

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

—Albert Ellis

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

—Lichty and Wagner