I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

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

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

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.

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

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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