"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny"

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them"

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship"

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside"

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship"