My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

To her surprise, Lucky tilted his head and looked her in the eye, appearing oddly…crestfallen, she thought. “Don’t be nervous, ” he said. “I hate making you nervous.

When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.

Luck of money is never poverty.

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

Pain is not to be buried away, in my mother’s book: you stomp and rave until it hurts a little less." -Buzzfeed Article

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.