A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.