Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

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.

Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.‘You cannot take these flowers, ’ said Zoran. ‘They belong to the government.

Feelings are something you have

In many ways, Mitt Romney and I are very different. Different starts in life. Different paths to leadership. Different cultures.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?