I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing. . . We may only go in circles.
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.
Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.