Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.