Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

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.

Do not confuse reasons which sound good with good, sound reasons.

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.