The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...