To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

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

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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