In some families, please is ...

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
 Margaret Laurence

Quotes from the same author

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
 Margaret Laurence
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.
 Margaret Laurence
Follow your heart, and you perish.
 Margaret Laurence