"If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters."

- Abigail van Buren

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."

- Abigail van Buren

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

- Abigail van Buren

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money"

- Abigail van Buren

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail van Buren