Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

The first duty of love is to listen.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.