This stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky — that's called liberation.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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

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

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

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

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

The only lasting truth is change.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.