In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.
The knowledge of all things is possible
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians hearts are.
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.