Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

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.

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

Have faith in your abilities and stay committed to your goals.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America. America doesn't break unless it wants to.