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.

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

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

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.

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.

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The holy lamp is forever burning Holy Bible

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

We judge ourselves by our intentions

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Nothing in Christianity is original.