It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

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 big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.