The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

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

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Success is the process itself.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.