Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

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.

Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

I supply guns to every army but the Salvation Army.