Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.

There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.