If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He’ll use the people around us for that

Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best