Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

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.

In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.

Build your life on your dreams

Souls’ may be subjugated and regulated – for a time – but never terminated. They live!

Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.

We are 100% responsible for all our experiences. Every thought we think is creating our future.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.