We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Success is 99 percent failure.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

Caw! Caw, Hartley, caw!"Chase narrowed his eyes again."Sam?"I nodded. Then crossed to the window again and called down to Sam. "You can quit squawking. He caught me.

Hope is the light, trusted guide in darkness.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.