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

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

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”

“We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.”

“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 emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it …”

“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”

“They are not your friend unless they have defended you in your absence.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”