The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

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.

Always using the same methods is not God’s way

I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension.

Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.