Quotes about Boundaries

Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Love, then, must be true to the ones we love and to ourselves, and also to its own laws. I cannot be true to myself if I pretend to have more in common than I actually have with someone whom I may like for a selfish and unworthy reason.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender oneself to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence. It destroys one's own capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes the work fruitful.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.

I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

Stop worrying about being your child's buddy. You are the only one in the world with the primary responsibility of giving your child what he needs, not what he wants.