Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

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.

The boy I fell madly in love with – the boy made entirely of goodness and light – has been snuffed out by the bloodthirsty creature that glowers before me.

We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it.

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

The Left needs causes like fish need water

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.