The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

I cannot determine what will define my time in this place, But I do hope I've demonstrated something else entirely—that you can be anxious, sensitive, kind and wear your heart on your sleeve.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

You can fall, but you can rise also.