That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Always walk as if you’re running late, it’s healthier.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.