Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

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

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

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

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.