We need empathy to give 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.

Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.