Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

Controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.

A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you.

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.