Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

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.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.