Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

I gave you the best of me.

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.

You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.