Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

It's a lot easier when you can share the workload to be honest. Especially if you really, really, trust in each other.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last. Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.