Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

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.

We open our hearts to receive God when we open our hearts to people

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.

I am confident. I never give up.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.