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

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

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

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.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

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

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

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

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