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.

Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

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.

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.

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.