I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.