Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.

Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

I joined a health spa recently. They had a sign for "Free Weights." So I took a couple.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.