There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.