Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

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 need not flatter any man

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset.

How selfish and dark it was to count my blessings based on another's hell

You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

I love jewelry - rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, you name it.

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.