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

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it’s forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can’t ride.

To be human is to embrace change. There are parts of you ready to die and parts of you waiting to be born. You are never broken, lost. You are ever changing. Always becoming.

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.