No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.