Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

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.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

When you love others unconditionally and care for others endlessly, you create a blissful life.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.