The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

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.

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

Gratitude for me is waking up each day, and being able to make a difference in somebody’s life.

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.