When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

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.

If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.

I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?