No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

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.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.