The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
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.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
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.
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
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.
It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.