“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.