Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

Jobs are created by businesses, especially small and mid-sized businesses.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.