We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Do not lose your heart, " she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it