Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter

If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.

Have empathy, gratitude and respect for every position in the company.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.