The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

The struggle is beautiful.

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.