“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.

In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice.

We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Sometimes we choose to be cold, to act cold.