We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.