"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Business is the salt of life"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"