I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Observations always involve theory.

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To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got. Not much of a girl friend, never seem to get a lot.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.