Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

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.

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.