We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

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.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

I think the funniest stuff comes from the heaviest stuff.

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.