We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.

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.

People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).

Samantha, you're in my world now. We have standards here."-Jesse

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.