One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Materialism is an identity crisis.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
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.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
