It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

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.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

The Problem is Not the Problem.The Problem is Your Attitude Towards the Problem

Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

I don't change. The things around me change.

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.