Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

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.

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

Museums, I love museums.