We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. - John Irving

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves — to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!