Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

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.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.