When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

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.

Never forsake your motherland.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

How come when I was a kid, I couldn't be picked on bullies like that?

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Oh, to know God's private address.