With confidence, you have won before you have started.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.