Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse.

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.

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.