Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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