We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

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.

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.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Spring time is a time for new adventure.

Experience prefers humility.

Whenever she felt at home, there always seemed to be love floating about on the edges of things.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.