You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

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.

You have no future when the past rules you.

A believer covers up and give Naseehah, whereas an evil-doer exposes and humiliates.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Luke', I said, and immediately added, 'My boyfriend.' My supernatural, doomed, gorgeous, killer boyfriend.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.