The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

You are the mental architect of your own destiny

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

I don't see any possible excuse for any driver anywhere to endanger people.