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

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.

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.

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.

However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

I did this movie called 'Lymelife' when I was 18, and you know, it was the first time I was working as an adult, a legal adult, and that was a huge growing experience for me.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.