Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

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.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

Hardly anything wrong can go bad.

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.