Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

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

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

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.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.