“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

We need much less than we think we need.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.