As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

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.

Music revived my spirit.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.