Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

I wasn't a great background singer.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

I bought cars for all six of my children

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to have a corresponding behavioural impact.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.