What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

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.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.