People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

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.

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.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

speak from heart to get heard by heart.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.