The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy.

Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.

Stay focused on the mission.

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.'I'm a murderer.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.