I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

'You must've been waiting for someone like me to come along, ' I said. I meant, because of the big bed. But Larry looked at me all funny and said, 'Yes, I think I was.'

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.