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

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.

I just prefer my fiction with more teeth.

I know that whenever I feel my world turningupside down, nothing grounds me like a manicure.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?

The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.