Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

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.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.