Ann Landers

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.

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 principles of equal partnership.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

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.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.