NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

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.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.