The ultimate definition of success is the ability to repeat it.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.