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

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.