You live out the confusions until they become clear.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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