Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.