Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.