Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

Extra-marital affairs become things of legend… and often the undoing of legends… and mere mortals.

Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don’t love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.

Some people think that it’s okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it’s certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.