Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.

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

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

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

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

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.