The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.