With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the "as if" condition. Thus, it means to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it and to perceive the causes thereof as he perceives them, but without ever losing the recognition that it is as if I were hurt or pleased and so forth.

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