We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

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.

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.