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

...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.

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.

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

And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision." - Bob Proctor

How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.