Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

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.

Great friendship is never without anxiety.

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.