We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

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.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

There ain't no future in the past.