"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another."

"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

"You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you cana€?t teach someone who writes columns to care."

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

"A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life."

"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."