Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

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.

At the dawn of light, darkness disappears.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

Is it the raindrops pervading my being?or is it your lips touching my skin?

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.