I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Success is the child of audacity.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I always make my dreams into goals.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.