The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.

“Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.”

Understand that consistency is essential; nothing is achieved without it.

“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”