Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.

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.

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say, " I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.