We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

What values do achievement, degrees, and diplomas have if you don't have wisdom and love?

You should really leave, " Colton told him. "The energy I got in my heart is much stronger than anything you have seen.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.