"I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage."

"My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up."

"I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times."

"The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."