“Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.”

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, “I could be wrong; I often am.” It’s true.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every aspect.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

The lesser we have to care about whether someone is a narcissist or not, the better we will end up improving our private lives.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

“You’re growing in so many ways you don’t even realize yet” said the soul.