To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose, is a simple matter of creating those blessings for others.

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.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.