Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

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.

Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.