Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

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.

What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

I like fashion because it’s sort of my job, so I’m into it when I have to be. But when I’m not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.