In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

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.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.