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.

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.

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.

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.

Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

"There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo."

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.