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

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.

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.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.