Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

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

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

The only lasting truth is change.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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.