"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people."

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

"He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it."

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

"Courage is not about taking risks unknowingly, but putting your own being in front of challenges that others may not be able to."

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow."

"Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them."

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose."

"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."

"If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."