Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

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.

Life is not about reality. It is about how you perceive it.

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.

Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems that most other actions.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.