“If you salute your duty, you no need to salute anybody, but if you pollute your duty, you have to salute everybody.”

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

“Don’t worry about those who talk behind your back, they are behind you for a reason.”

“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love.”

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

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

“Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve so much more.” 

A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.”

Easy is to judge the mistakes of others. Difficult is to realize your own mistakes.

“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.”

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