If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

You can only accomplish what I really love. Do not take the money as a goal. Instead, pursue the things you passionate about, and do good to others can not take my eyes off you

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.