Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.