"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed."

"It is a radiant truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"It is a unyielding truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering."

"It is a unyielding truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There's no abiding success without commitment."

"The seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."