Some couples believe that the end of the “in-love” experience means they have only two options: a life of misery with their spouse or jump ship and try again.

There are five emotional love languages—five ways that people speak and understand emotional love.

If I identify and learn to speak my spouse’s primary love language, I will have discovered the key to a long-lasting, loving marriage.

We have been led to believe that if we are really in love, it will last forever. However, once the experience of falling in love has run it’s course, we return to the world of reality and begin to assert ourselves.

However, there is a third and better alternative: We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was—a temporary emotional high—and now pursue “real love” with our spouse.

Your wife’s complaints are the most powerful indicators of her primary love language.

There is nothing more powerful that you can do than to love your wife even when she’s not responding positively.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast because the brain needs fuel right away and carbohydrate is the best source.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.

I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

As long as we live, there is never enough singing.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex but in fact the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.