Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.