So at family gatherings… I try to stick to the acceptable script. Indeed, I discover that the less I say, the happier everyone seems to be with me. I sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t have been better off as a paraplegic or afflicted by some tragic ...
Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good marriage, it changes, it evolves, but it does on g...
We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound sense of guilt and shame that is not meliorated merely by unearthing memories or focusing on the co...
Personal liberty is not personal license.
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me...
When you know better, you do better!
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
Individuals usually do a better job than the government.
I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.
Casey was the better team and the better team won.
Feeling better is not actually being better.
Poverty is not a crime, but it's better not to show it.
"I heard" is good; "I saw" is better.
Better little than too little.
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
Better alone than in bad company.
Patience is often better than medicine.
The worst life is better than the best death.
It is better to be the object of jealousy, than of pity.
Voluntary work is better than slavery.
