“He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.”

Think positively, no matter how hard life is.

Where there is haste, there must be mistake.

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude.

People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken.

Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

We don’t make ourselves compassionate; we are born compassionate.

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.