Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

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.

One 'beautiful-mind' indeed weighs heavy over thousand creations of natureand that is why from Socrates to Kabir, all hold such great importance.

Take my hands, ” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

A birthday is a glorious day filled with good laughter, gladness and great memories.

Without patience, one cannot get far in life.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'