People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

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.

I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse!

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

Nothing is true and everything is permitted.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!