My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

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.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

Food is man's only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy,” a voice said, but it was far away from her.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.