If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

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.

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.

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.

I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.