Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.