“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

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

“If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

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

“We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.”

“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

“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.”

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