Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.