Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. — Oprah Winfrey

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To handle yourself use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt,

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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Once you stop learning, you start dying

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If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. — Frank A. Clark

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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength. ― Napoleon Bonaparte

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I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs. -MF Doom

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I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

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Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. — Vivian Greene

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