Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.