You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself.

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.

People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.

more money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.