Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

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.

I do not write to you, but of you, /because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

Don't agonize, organize.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.