“When you become senile, you won't know it.”

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”

“And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...”

“If you want to be seen, stand up.If you want to be heard, speak up.If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”