When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

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.

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

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.