Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

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.

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.

And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind.

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!