We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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

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

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

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

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

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