Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.