We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night. " As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
If you've been seeing someone for a short while and the "relationship" winds itself down mutually but not explicitly, no postmortem is necessary. But a real relationship should have a real ending.
My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.
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.
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
How can we know ourselves by ourselves?. . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.
The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.
I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
You know whether you have a real relationship with the president when you know it's real.
There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.
When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked. . . when you're a gay guy you don't necessarily have that same push to make a conventional relationship work.
It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?
Love lasts when the relationship comes first
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.