The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

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 leader must stand up for his team even when he has to stand alone.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.

We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.