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

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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.