You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

I said to a girl I'd been seeing, come home with me, honey, and I'll show you where it's at. She said, You'd better, because the last time I could'nt find it.

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.