A married man is a preoccupied man.

The man who has no secrets from his wife either has no secrets or no wife

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.