many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.

Love God, and do what you like.

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.