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.

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

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

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

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.

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

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.