You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.