The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

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.

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.