How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

I’ve learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

Not only is diversity allowed within the People of God

I just can’t do it anymore. It’s too painful. It doesn't mean I’m over you, it means I’m not going to waste the rest of my life being haunted by your memory.

Right now, all she knew was that she had the potential to love him greatly and fiercely, and she wanted to do so and nothing else very much and for many years.

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.