Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.

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.

I am born to win.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.