You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

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.

Be grateful for the day and the day will be grateful for you. Stay positive and everything around you will respond in kind.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

I got so much advice; I just started tuning it out. If one more person told me what I had to do when the baby comes, I was going to shoot 'em.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

I'm not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.