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

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

“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.

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”

Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of answers

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

Tomorrow is a new day

“Don’t worry about those who talk behind your back, they are behind you for a reason.”

“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.”

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it …”

“If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit!”