The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

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.

Dream of dreamers!

A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.

Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy.

Being yourself is the ticket to a successful life.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.