Everything I’ve ever done that’s valuable is something I was terrified to try.

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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

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.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.