Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.