We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

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 the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'