One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

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.

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.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.