Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.

If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator.

Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.

Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.

Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want.

I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

When we were told it's impossible, we knew it's the right way to be done.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!