We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data on you and command you to believe it or else. If it is not true for you, it isn't true. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest. There is nothing unhappier than one who tries to live in a chaos of lies.

In the end you have only you.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes. I make where I go. It's that sort of thing.

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you