Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.

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.

Once you know you are on the right path, you must stay focused and be prepared for the devil’s attacks

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.

Head gear, plus acne equals...table for one in the cafeteria.