We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious.

In 1970, you went to school to find your husband.

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

Change, like healing, takes time.