Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

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

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

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.