A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.