We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

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.

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.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand?

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.

When you put your arms around me, You let me know there's nothing in this world I can't do

You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

Listen to presences inside poems.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.