I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.

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.

Confidence and hope builds up in you when you have a glimpse of what your future is like

Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

There is always a fear that i’ll be in Europe somewhere, and this little blue-eyed kid would come over to me with his mom and go, “dada, dada”.

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.