We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.

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.

Diversity cannot swim in a world flooding with clones.

The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.

The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.

Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)