“Life is a purposeful action.”

“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals”

“What are the messages that you are entertaining?”

“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”

“Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.”

“Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...”

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”

“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”

“What we do to others, we do to ourselves.”

“What we do to others, we do to ourselves.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”