We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

I like being surrounded by great people.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.