When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

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.

This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.