Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Love yourself, love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it.

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.