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

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

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

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.