The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Never explain, never complain.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

You can never be too rich or too thin.