“Family is not about blood. It’s about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.” 

“Anything that costs your peace is too expensive”

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

Your diet is not only what you eat.

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

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

“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.”

“Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve so much more.” 

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.