Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

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.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Jesus didn't suffer so we wouldn't have to suffer. He suffered so that we would know how to suffer.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it