“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.

Jealousy is the most destructive emotion

When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Seeds burst from the inside out in a self-destructive ritual of new life.

Seeds burst from the inside out in a self-destructive ritual of new life.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don’t care if it’s self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.