The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

I've been doing the Fonda workout: the Peter Fonda workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go to my sister's house and ask her for money.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].