“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”

Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen you may learn something new.”

“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

“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.”

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

“Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.”

“We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.”

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

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”