Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.