Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

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.

Nothing Happens for the First Time

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.