Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Evan Esar

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman, Einstein

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J. B. Priestley

I do enjoy animated movies.

Nicolas Cage

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

Les bras d'une mère sont faits de tendresse et un doux sommeil benit l'enfant qui s'y abandonne.

Victor Hugo

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Jack Herbert

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S. Beagle

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Freda Adler

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Bibesco