What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

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.

Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.

A great personality is the most important beauty of any woman. Physical appearance is only temporary.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

Thoughts are living things - they travel far.