“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

“Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”

“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”

“You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”

“You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.”

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.”

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

“Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.”

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”