If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.

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

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

ON CHILDREN

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

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

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

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”

“If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit!”

“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.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Live your best, and act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no tomorrows.