All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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.

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

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

Love comes… when you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.