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.

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.

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.

You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.