What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

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

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

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

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.

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

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

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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