How to succeed? Try hard enough.

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.

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.