Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

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.

With your brain you will be smart, with your heart you will be wise but with both of them you'll be something Awesome for Other peoples

I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side.

Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!