Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

My traumatic experience was life changing

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

I'm the type of person where, A., I look at things as challenges, I like challenges and, B., I truly believe that you determine your own destiny.

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

The process is the reality.