There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.

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.

The power of positive thoughts is divine. Maintain a positive thoughts to create the life you want.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.