To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

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.

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

It takes a strong individual to live passionately, and with having quality in their conviction, that sets the results one achieves.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.