Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

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

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.