Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

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