If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

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.

Refine

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

If you're religious, it's like looking at God.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.