The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.