The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

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.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.