Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.