“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” 

“Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?”

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

“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.”

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

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.

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

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

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”