It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.