Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

Surround yourself with positive people.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

The more you give, the more you can give.

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

True friendship is the hardest thing to break...

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.