But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

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.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.