If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

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.

All actors should experience public failure.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.