“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

A Friends Feeling About Life and Happiness, Who is heading towards 80

“Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.”

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.

Control anger before it controls you.

In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past as that will only cause unnecessary resentment.

“If it’s important you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.”

Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of Success.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

“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.”

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”