You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

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.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

Smile, it's free therapy.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.