Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.

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.

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

Trust me, you see the dead walking around, you learn not to scream, laugh, or piss yourself pretty quickly.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.