At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

It is always the one closest to you that hurts you the most.

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !

My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.