“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen you may learn something new.”

“If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit!”

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

“If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

A dream is not that which you see while sleeping, it is something that does not let you sleep.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”