I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

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.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.