When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

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.

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

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.