Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity

It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

Grace and chocolate cake can cover a world of awkwardness.

Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.