A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.

Words are forces of life.

For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.