And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.

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.

It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.