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.
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.