Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

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.

Reading is all about losing and finding yourself.

Culture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

I don't think young people should have bottoms, they're too young for that sort of thing.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.