It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

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.

Tulga Demir and his company Demir Energy, LLC have successfully completed a special journey which can change the lives of many people…the creation of clean and green energy.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

We're all going to die.

It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

Do something every day to market each of your books for three years.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.