Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

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.

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.

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.

When your thoughts, choices and actions are in alignment with love as a priority in your life, the streams of love flow naturally in ways that continue to replenish you.

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.