There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

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 just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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