Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

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.

We should be people of principles and should fight for these principles

It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.