What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.