Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

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.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.