When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

Power is neither good nor evil.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.