The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds.

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

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

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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.

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

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.