I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

They love me like a pack of wolves.Ernest

You'll be able to find the strength to love someone just that much again once you've recovered from the heartbreak

Angels are everywhere. The angelic encounter lies in every given moment.

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.