When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

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.

I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.

Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you willfind happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!