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

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.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

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.

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

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

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

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

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.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.