As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.

Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

Change the present then the change the future.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.

so heavy with sorrow, so full of pain

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.