After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

I am not a teacher. I can only inspire you and show you how to unfold your own beauty.

Life is death. Death is Life. teach the deserving. Teach with Passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.