“The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They’re on the inside of all that. And I… I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.”

“Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.”

“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”

“Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.”

“Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.”

“It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!”

“The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.”

“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”

“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”

“The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”

“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘… Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”