Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like 'struggle.'

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

The only lasting truth is change.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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