If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.