If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

All people are enslaved by something.

Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger than before.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.