There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.