I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.

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.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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