Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

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

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.