Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

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.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

We can only testify about what we have seen: the signs and wonders of God. So that others may desire to seek the Holy One.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.'

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!