"Life is short. Focus on what really matters most"

"Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust."

"One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires."

"You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can."

"There's more to life than love."

"Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving."

"If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life."

"You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life."

"My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature."

"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary."

"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."

"You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself."

"Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one."

"There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself"

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people"

"If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen."

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so"

"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action"

"Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new."

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."

"You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy"

"Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances"