Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

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 the other.

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.