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

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.

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

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.

The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

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

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.