How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.