Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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