People who are good to each other make each other good.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.

Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marriage is more impervious to the effects of discourtesy than friendship, I do not know.

We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.