“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.