As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

It's a hard loss when you lose by one point.

"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.