There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.

One thing that they don’t tell you is that fires can’t burn bright forever.

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Dynamism is a function of change.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.