After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.