And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to … - Sydney J. Harris

A person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself to himself by saying, "I'm only human, after all."

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.