The image is one thing and the human being is another… it's very hard to live up to an image.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.