Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

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.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life?

We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.

We are alone by birth, but we conceal the truth from ourselves till death.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.