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.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.