The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Dare to love greatly.

He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.