“You don't find happiness in the absence of problems. You find happiness in spite of problems.”

“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”

“It's not what happens to you that determines your happiness. It's how you think about what happens to you.”

“Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.”

“I used to imagine that if I got up early enough in the morning and went to Pebbly Beach, I'd find my special someone walking along the shore front, waiting. But she was never there.”

“The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them”

“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it.”