It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

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.

The difference between those that can and those that can’t is attitude.

The day Cami nearly succeeded at her suicide attempt was the worst day of Kaci’s life. Cami was the only sister that she had, and she couldn’t imagine spending the rest of her life without her.

If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.

Being extra nice to someone can be a form of manipulation--kindness is an exercise of power in its own right.

They did not know it was impossible, so they did it. Mark Twain

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

My legs tired, ain't your legs tired!? His legs ain't Tired! He Just... Tinktinktinktinktinktink, TinktinkTinktinkTinktink!! Just paperclips and Sparks everywhere!

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.