For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.