We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

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.

Happiness never decreased by being shared.

I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like... well, Eichmann maybe.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

People with ambition want Paolo Di Canio.

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.