You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Grant me courage to serve others; for in service there is true life.