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.

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

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

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.

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.

Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.