The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

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.

The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth

I like fighting because it's honest.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.