When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

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.

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts

Ethics is a skill

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

We are religious by nature.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.