We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

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.

You can only access the beautiful world through faith by truthfully embracing beauty and caring.

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.