Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

In quietness the soul expands.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.