Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

Just because we’ve made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.