Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

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.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Dedicate time to yourself and do things that help you grow

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.

I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.