“Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.”

“Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.”

“...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.”

“...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.”

“We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.”

“Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.”

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past...”

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself aliv...”

“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”