The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.