Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

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.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

You always ask if I'm okay But it's not the same as being happy

One should never despair too soon.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

When alone with God, be alone with Him.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.