What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

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

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

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

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