Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Relationships are never chance events.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Believe in yourself. Trust the process. Change forever.

We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Almost everything is like a machine.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.