The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

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 think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

What's love got to do with it?

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.