When all is said and done, the act of being a parent involves a set of radically unselfish and often incomprehensibly inconvenient activities. Two adults who could otherwise employ their time and resources in pleasurable activities of various kinds elect to seek housing and provide food and other facilities for completely dependent organisms whose personal schedules, furthermore, could not be at greater variance with adult ones, and who will involve their parents literally for decades in a compromise between a program of work or pleasure and the requirements of their offspring. It is not altogether remarkable that parents may have one child, if only in error or because of confused expectations of bliss. What is truly remarkable is that most parents have more than one child.
—Lionel Tiger
When people care about each other, they always find a way to make it work.
—Nicholas Sparks in True Believer
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
—Laurence J. Peter
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate.
—Margaret Mead
Each of us, we humans, if we are to look our own kind in the eye, should at least be willing to say we’re sorry, that all over our smaller and more lethal planet, whatever the causes, we’re still killing our own kind — the same but different, but our own kind nonetheless.
—Thomas Lynch
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
—Albert Camus
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes you just want someone to blindly agree with you, no matter what the problem is.
—S.C. Stephens in Reckless
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
—Rita Rudner
Once I wanted total happiness – now I will settle for a little less pain.
—Ashleigh Brilliant