I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.