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

“Show your anger when needed. People need to know what irritates you and what doesn’t. But, crucially, remain internally calm. Your anger is only a tool. Don’t become its puppet.”

“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

“To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.”

“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.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”

“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”

Every family has a person who breaks the chain of poverty, Be that person to your family.

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

“Home is the place, where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”