Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

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.

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks.

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.