Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman), (1918 - 2002) Quotes

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest -- never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

Do your giving while you're living, then you'll be knowing where it's going.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody every night you go to bed.

It takes no more time to be courteous than to be rude.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

What the vast majority of American children need is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.