If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

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.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.