When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.

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

What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full empathic understanding, they will experience a sense of relief. We can become aware of this phenomenon by noticing a corresponding release of tension in our own body.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.