“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.”

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

Anyone can buy a good house, but good neighbors are priceless.

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

“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.”

“Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”

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

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

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.

“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”