Beauty can come in strange forms.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

The traveler knows the grace of travel.

He dusted off the shoulder tab and stared at it, so light in his hand, so inconsequential. It was hard to believe that a shred of cloth could have so much destructive power locked away in it.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

There’s no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it’d be rather boring.

Sometimes it’s just a matter of letting go and getting on with life.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

The question you need to ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.