Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.