To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?

If we take the time to silence the chatter in our minds, it gives our heart the opportunity to awaken from its slumber. Peace of mind begins with peace in the heart.

Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

NASA sends probe to Uranus, people everywhere giggle.

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.