We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
I'm a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don't.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
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.
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
