No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred

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.

Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.