“I don’t think it’s good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery- of relationships and in general- is to learn to live with the bits you don’t like.”

“Your absence has gone through me…Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

“I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”

“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded with December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”

“Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.”