Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

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.

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.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

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

The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.

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