The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

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.

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Sometimes I wake up and think I wish id never told the world my story but I know good comes from it

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.

Money wants no followers.

If you make meaning, you'll make money.

Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.

Dedicated to my brother Richard with all my heart.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.