“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”

“in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!”

“Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.”

“no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!”

“Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.”

“Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.”

“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.”