Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. but I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal god.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.