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

Be Happy Be Yourself, if others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody. 

“When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.”

“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.”

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

ON CHILDREN

Your diet is not only what you eat.

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

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

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

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

“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”