I hate ordinary people!

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It’s the bravest act of all.

The discovery of your purpose (the reason for your existence) generates the passion and dedication it takes to pursue and fulfill it...

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

Joy makes the longest journey too short.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.