To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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.

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

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Success is the process itself.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.