You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.