If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

We need much less than we think we need.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the lover of it. I live it.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.