If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

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.

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

I have found that if you love life life will love you back.

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

I am not the world's most confident person.

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.