Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

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.

We are God’s holy temple. The Spirit dwells in us.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

We claim to have the light in the Church yet we want to lock ourselves within the four walls of that same Church.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.