The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.