Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Good design is good business.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Success is on the far side of failure.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

People will bow down in front of your result not in front of you.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.