Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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

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