You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Love heals violence and all its sources. Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

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

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.