If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.

Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.

Most think as an OR. This OR that. The most successful among us think as an AND. This AND that.

When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.

Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

We can no longer rely on the rules of the past to win.

You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

A winner makes mistakes. A loser blames others for them.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.

I knew I was going to have success here.