Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

Acquaintances are always abundant

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.