Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

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.

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

I like to innovate. To me, if it's worth doing something, it's worth doing it well. Do something that's going to demand attention and notice.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.