Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.

The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category.

God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that He ordains.

Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy.

I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.

Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity.

You can't trust the internet.

My profession is called record production.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.