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.

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.

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.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Unity is vision

Calmness is always Godlike.

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.