“A deep friendship can keep a partner from jumping to negative conclusions when another partner says or does something that sounds derogatory and hurtful. It may be a wellspring of trust, a key ingredient of successful partnerships. True friendship can help one partner to be understanding when another has family problems that wind up shortchanging the business for an extended period of time. A strong bond of friendship may be a sign of shared values and can be the glue that holds partners together when the business is under stress.”

“Passion is the essence of sensual living.”

“In his opinion, men fell into four categories: the gorgeous scoundrels, who had half of the female population swooning at their feet; the handsome good guys, who also encountered no difficulties in finding a partner; the ugly, but charming, who still had their fair share of success with the opposite sex. And then came the invisible ones. The men who were neither good-looking, nor ugly. The ones you saw once and failed to remember the next day. They were the nice guys. And he was one of them.”

“I see the echo in your eyes & your beautiful voice still causes my mind to dance in circles around my heart, enticing it to rise & love again.”

“It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.”

“She was his Eve. He was her fall. He’d make the leaves of her trees blush, then he’d undress them all.”

“The quality of all your current relationships is a direct result of how you feel about yourself.”

“A beau needs to love you for who you are, not who you’re tryin’ to be.”

“Some people I know should walk around with written warnings on, like the ones you find on cigarette packages.”

“The only thing remaining was to hang Arina in the Louvre like the Mona Lisa and forget that she was alive.”

“He studied her tastes and reactions – in food, sex, or music – as if he were drawing a map of the continent that he had just discovered.”

“Sometimes it takes a lot of Joe to find the Joe who’s right.”

“We all have dark times!”

“Many a woman secretly has a crush on a man who secretly has a crush on her man.”

“But it seems logical… a man and a woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally. …. I can’t always be Lois Lane,” I insisted. “ I want to be Superman, too.”