The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

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.

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?

It is gracious to overlook an offence.

He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.

It is not a fragrant world.

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.