Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

That's how most things are, " Gus replied sagely. "The theory is clean and polished, but the execution is usually an ugly, complicated mess.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!

We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.