Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Your mind believes what you tell it.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

You are what you love, not who loves you.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world.

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.