Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

All things are made beautiful at a timely hour.

I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes.

Your partner cannot read your mind, so talk to your partner about how you're feeling and what you need.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.