When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Smiles are the language of love.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Money has a language of its own.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Respect the burden.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.