Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year but not 12 months a year.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

I think if you're in a committed relationship unless you have some sort of an understanding monogamy is something that should exist.

I'm not really a relationship expert but ...I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.

The whole of science and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here and how do you fit in and what's it all about.

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

In finding love I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship I think it's important to be honest to communicate to respect and trust and to strive to give more than you take.

So after the Lewinsky scandal everything changed and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time which were social to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads my relationship with Clinton and his wife Hillary made me a better journalist.

When Tony was madly in love with me his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

But you know I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that you know enough's enough.

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I think at some stage I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.