It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again

A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.

We experience prosperity in our relationships as we learn to love, forgive, and receive love and forgiveness.

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

The only one who can beat me is me.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.