We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

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.

Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

We are governed not by armies but by ideas.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.

Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?