if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed." She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.