"I once heard a very wise man say, 'A good leader is not one who makes people do what they want, but one who helps people want to do what is right.'"

"If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

"It is not often that I have been afraid, but when I have been, I have been thoroughly afraid."

"You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue."