A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

I'm primarily just an investor.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.