Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

If you refuse to practice run today, it will make harder to practice it tomorrow

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!