Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Do what feel is right, and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live,

Her capacity for love overshadows the stars, lightening crackles malevolently in the wake of her wrath and for all the tangled mess woman brings to man, in her glory, she is the divine Goddess.

Your body may not be, but the quintessence your being and entity is made-up of, is forever.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

For we are all sprung from earth and water