The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.

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.

Discover your sacred soul.

He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

Rich in Happiness is about choosing new perspectives, new habits, and a new emotional future.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.