Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

If we don’t honor our truth, how can we expect anyone else to do so?

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

How can you get through to yourself?

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.