For me, education was power.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I have goals.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Everybody has a purpose.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Character is destiny.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

My life is mine to remember.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

One must steer, not talk.