I am prepared to try anything once.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons."I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

I don't want to be responsible anymore. I don't want to have plans. I just want to float through the world.

I love to be busy, and when I'm off the court, I do things I love.