What do you do when there's nowhere to turn? You drive straight ahead.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

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.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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.

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