Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

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.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.

Every great soul had a great mentor.

How can you be the best at what you do, when you don't even know what your strengths and weaknesses are?

If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab?

If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.