When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

Now smile a real smile for me so I know you're not suffering inside.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.