At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons

I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.