How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued. Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.