Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

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.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine

What's going on?" I asked when he finished."I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait.""Great. My favorite thing to do.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks