Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

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.

Dangerous Are the ways of love ….Baby dangerous When you can’t get enough …Lonely nights are spent in vain

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

I sat up in bed my body covered in sweat, and aching from tossing and turning that I had done. I knew it had been another nightmare. They had plagued my nights since the day I took Aleksander’s life.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.