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. – Ann Landers
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. – Ann Landers
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. – Ann Landers
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. – Ann Landers
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. – Marlo Thomas