How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.