Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

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.

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.

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.

Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become.

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

You could train cats do things, a lot of people don't think cats aren't trainable. Cats can be trusted just a friend.

The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.