When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

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.

Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

I enjoy learning technical details.

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.