How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

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 looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.