They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.

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.

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Do you recall that night in June Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the ländler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.