"I know for sure that as you have the courage to make a choice, you have the courage to live with the results of that choice."

"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."

"The quality of strength is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. And sometimes, the triumph is just deciding to get out of bed."

"My mother said, 'If you can't be a bridge, be a plank.' I thought that was a rather ingenious way of putting it."

"I believe that compassion is the most important thing a person can have. And I believe that compassion can heal the world."