Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth.

One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance to go outside. I can look at the mud, or I can look at the stars. I am the one who decides which way to look. That is true for every one of us.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Physically abusive and verbally abuse marriages are very, very difficult situations. I fully understand people in those kinds of marriages who think there is no hope. I also know that the advice that is given by most people is simply... get out of there as fast as you can.