The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?""He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.

She moved her hands like crane claws as she spoke, trying to dig at the essence of what she was saying. It was the dirtiest I love you I’ve ever heard.

Tada sam shvatio dvije stvari: prvo, da ne moraš znati jezik da bi razumio prijatelja, i drugo, da je Ervin Hladnik Milharčić ozbiljan genij.

I don’t know how to say it without saying it, so I’ll just not say it. Or I could show it, because that’s the only way to make love visible.