Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

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.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

Old Time the clock-setter.