With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

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.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Mrs. Winalski owned a candy-apple-red 1965 Mustang GT convertible, and she drove it like she could die at any minute and needed to get five things done before that happened.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.