Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

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 person without regrets is called a corpse.

People can say crap. They can think whatever they want, but you control how you feel about it.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I've had an entrepreneurial mindset from a young age and I've been interested in companies and products that are a little bit different.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.

Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.