We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

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.

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.

Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose

You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.