The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

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.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

Every day is your day if you claim it.

I think the minute that people start looking at Deadpool and saying how can we recreate that is the minute they've already failed. I think everybody needs to be pursuing their own their course.