What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Never give up. Go and nurture. Go and nurture audacious goals. Let your greatness blossom.

All I know of morality I learned from football

Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.

Make your upper limit, no limit.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.