Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

The family is both mystery and reality; it houses our bodies and our spirits.

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

My life transformed by making myself a reader.

The man is in his work, read it if you want to know about him.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.

You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.