Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

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.

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.