"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."

"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"

"Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds."

"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are"

"Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do."

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down"

"Life sucks, and then you die..."

"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him."

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."