I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.

If we concern first with God’s Kingdom, we can inhabit all other kingdoms.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.