Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time.

Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

The family is both mystery and reality; it houses our bodies and our spirits.

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?

I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time.

I've spent hundreds of days on commercial sets in the last ten years. If I didn't learn something along the way, I wasn't paying very close attention.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life