To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.