“Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others.”

“You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”

“Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.”

“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Awe is what moves us forward.”

“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.”

“To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”