Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you’re together, which is that you just like each other.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

Good friends are good for your health.

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

Lasting love and forgiveness are two sides of the same page.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

It isn’t about how tall you are or how good-looking you are or whether or not you can play football. It’s about whether you can create a relationship.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.