Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.