Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

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.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

My RV is the only place where I can find some peace and quiet.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.