We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.