“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”