Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Good design is good business.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Success is on the far side of failure.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.

Rise up and be you. Your rise is your growth.

Bruises from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.