The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

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.

Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town any more.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

A rule should suit the purpose.