All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

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.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

A magnificent restoration awaits us. Christ comes in judgment; then restoration.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.