You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.