There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

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.

Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods.

As poor as a church mouse.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.