A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Compassion is the shortcut to connection.

Lust may turn a man into a rapist, but religion pushes him into a murder.

Maybe the key to moving on was distancing herself from Wes. Not all the way. Just a little bit.Enough to let someone else in.

Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.