Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

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.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

What can you expect from me in the next five years? Well... I'll get older

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.