In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

I am somebody who - my path to my faith is very kind of individual, and I don't want to be lumped into the category of those Westboro Baptists.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.