• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

• You are the most important person in the world.

• Always consider yourself a first-class citizen of the world. No one deserves better treatment than you.

• Be good to yourself. Be patient. Be kind. Be forgiving. After all, you're all you've got.

• The closest we ever come to perfection is when we write our resumes.

• Failure to hit the bulls-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

• You are free the moment you do not look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems.

• Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.

• Failure is success if we learn from it.

• Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

• The road to success is not doing one thing 100 percent better, but doing 100 things one percent better.

• Success comes before work only in the dictionary.