With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

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.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration.