An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

I don’t have to explain myself. My frequency is very common and is open to anybody to tune in.