Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

When you believe in someone, they will do anything and everything to live up to those who believe in.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will