Grief is the price we pay for love.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

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

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.