Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.

What I can't create I don't understand