Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

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.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.