Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

The earth is crying for people who make sound judgment and informed decisions

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

I give people permission to be kids again.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.