Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

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

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

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