We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

Extra-marital affairs become things of legend… and often the undoing of legends… and mere mortals.

Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don’t love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.

Some people think that it’s okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it’s certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

It's hard to get a hug wrong.

Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

When you find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.