Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way to manage your family.

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.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Everyone is into male grooming.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.