Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

Nothing is taken care of forever.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.

When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.