Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that. - Mignon McLaughlin

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done.