There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.

Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.

There is something divine in mindless beauty.

There's no medical term for what I've got.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

If you hate your job, don't worry, you won't have it for long.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.