The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

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.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

If you're born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you're not the body, mind, this or that. "Ye are gods!" - human.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!