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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.