The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

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.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

In the distance someone is singing.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.