Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

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.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That's why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.