The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells — and he smelled real nice.
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 only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships… the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions — love, antipathy, charity, or malice — and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.
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