People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

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.

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

If I didn't believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it.

Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.