I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

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.

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

You are the land. The land is you.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?