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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

Time is precious, waste it wisely

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

“Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn’t and can’t be a right.”

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”