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.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

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

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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