A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.

“Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.”

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

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

“Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

Tomorrow is a new day

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

“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.”

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

“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.”