The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.from the prose poem INNOCENCE

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.

Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.