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

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

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

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

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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