Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.