I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...

You know I don’t listen to market gossip, ” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I always wanted to be a great actor.