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.

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.

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.

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

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

The law of circulation is the power of communication.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.