There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

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.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.