The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

Hope survives best at the hearth.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.