Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.

People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

Lots of people feel more alive when theyre riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it cant possibly last.

Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.