NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

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.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

If have nothing but life, I have everything.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.