“Discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

“There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.”

“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”