Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are.

No soul willfully does wrong.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body