The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

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.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]

I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.