When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill,

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.