You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.

Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

Give me coffee! I'm going to write!