Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

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.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Without commitment, no price will be low enough. With commitment, no price will be too high.

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.