My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

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Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.

Oh, people get used to so many things, " said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.