A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

There is nothing wrong and nothing right. Our teachings and thoughts make it so.

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.