Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

As long as we can feel hope, there is hope.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Often when someone apologizes - like a parent who says to a child, "I'm very sorry I neglected you when you were a kid" - they also ask, "Do you forgive me?," because they want the other person to be over it. However, healing can take a great deal of time. And if we forgive too quickly, we cut the process short.

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 what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.