The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.

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.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

Daily grace and power of the Holy Spirit must be desired for living rightly and humbly.

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.