There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Your mind believes what you tell it.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Most of our lives are crucified between two thieves, yesterday and tomorrow. We never live today. But the time to live is now. It is today.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

Strangers don't harm you, But the people who says they care about you.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.” Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.