Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

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.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

I'm not looking for a paycheck.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.