Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.