If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

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

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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

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.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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