"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

"The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."

"You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different."

"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect — an essential principle for the reflective life."