To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

If someone is trying to bring you down, it only means you're above them.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.