The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

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.

Regardless of what you are going through, God has a solution

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.