'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'