"If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off."

"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."

"When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people."

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

"The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways."

"I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that."

"Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft."