Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.

I was not born to wait.

My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I'd almost gotten trapped in here, and now I'd come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.

We're our own heroes.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

I must have my share in the conversation.