We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

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

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.

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