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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.

The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

The more I know you, the more I want to know you more.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The objective of two lovers is almost always the same; to find meaning in their individual lives and in their life together.

Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love the I/thou relationship. Martin Buber stops there; his Judaic tradition won't allow him to go further. But one step more has to be taken that is neither 'I' nor 'thou' - a relationship where I and thou disappear, a relationship where two persons no longer function as two but function as one. A tremendous unity, a harmony, a deep accord - two bodies but one soul. That is the highest quality of love. I call it prayerfulness.

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.

There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate fulfillment.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.