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

— Ann Landers

I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo. I tell them that all marriages are happy It's the living together afterward that's tough. I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift, It's an achievement. That marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity. It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. I tell them that marriage is tested daily by the ability to compromise. Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about. Or making an issue of or even mentioning. Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving. And it is almost always the wife who must do these things. Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave. Often that is the hardest part. Oh, I have leveled all right. If they don't get my message, Buster, It's because they don't want to get it. Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals Because nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.

— Ann Landers

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

— Ann Landers

Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

— Ann Landers

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

— Ann Landers

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.

— Ann Landers

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

— Ann Landers

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

— Ann Landers

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

— Ann Landers

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.

— Ann Landers