...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.

All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.

So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don't leave. That's all.

I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.

...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.

(Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)

...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.

As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we move back and forth on that line decade by decade, year by year, week by week, even hour by hour.

Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.

You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.

His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.Percy & Annabeth

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It’s fun to help others because it feels good.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.