Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

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.

Freedom is a spiritual-self liberty.

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.