Successful people breed success.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Problems breed problems, and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.

I like to have fun. I'm definitely sexually liberated and all that good stuff.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!