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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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

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

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.