Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.

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

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.

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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