Ann Landers

At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

This may sound terribly selfish, but I love the freedom I have. I don't have to worry about a man's wardrobe, or his relatives, or his schedule, or his menu, or his allergies. I would not be married again.

Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead that's where your future lies.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.