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

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse.

It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling.

If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.