Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.

society has an embarrassing history of denial

Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.

The happy family is a myth for many.

Unleash the force of bliss within you. Radiate your joy no matter what!

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.