When you need empathy, you cannot 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.

Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?