The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

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

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.