Acceptance is the road to all change.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

I would never be fearful of any character.

As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.

Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.