You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove 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.

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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

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

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