“Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.”

“Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.”

“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.”

“Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.”

“The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietn...”

“It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.”

“What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.”

“You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.”

“Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.”

“The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.”

“I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.”

“We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of your...”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”