Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset

Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference

Another note to self

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.