Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

All romances end at marriage.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.