“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

“Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.”

“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.”

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better... ”

“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?”