You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

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.

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

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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