The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

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

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

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

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

The best proof of love is trust.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.