As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

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.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

To be slightly evil is to embrace life.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

There has to be some self-denial.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth