When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

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.

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

We are a nation of laws.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Let your love fly like a bird on a wing And let your love bind you to all livin' things And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean That's the reason.

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.