When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

... no matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.