You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Never do anything that isn't play.

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