Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

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.

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

I'm not a diva. I know what I like and I know what I want.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!