The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

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.

An apprentice was unquestioningly loyal until the moment he wasn't. Both Master and apprentice knew this.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Mickey [Rourke] one time just basically drove off in the picture car that we were driving in. For my amusement. It was either to kidnap me or for my amusement.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.