Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.

I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

My love of books was all that saved me.