Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

I am confident. I never give up.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

Sharing is having more.