In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

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.

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

Duct tape can't fix stupid, " Bas growled. "Maybe not, " Red replied, "but it can hold it down and muffled the screams.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be found.

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.