The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.