If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

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

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

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.

There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

John Kerry said today that he wants to get rid of tax cuts for the rich and his wife said, 'Hey, shut up! What's the matter with you?! Are you nuts?!'

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.