Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

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.

Life is plain. But never a pain.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back!

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.