We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

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.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

Conquer or be conquered.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.