When you wear a mask, you are not real.

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

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.