First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness.

Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.