Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

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 freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.

Sometimes the good memories are just as painful as the bad ones.

Everyone in your life is in your life for a reason, it's finding those reasons that make life beautiful.

They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That damned, illusive pimpernel.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

one ingredient of revenge is always pride.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.