Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

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.

Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a gun but nobody have the right to kill others because he is carrying a gun

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre)

I am what libraries and librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.