“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.”

“You must assume responsibility for what you believe.”

“Do birds trust the branch on which they land or do they trust their wings, I have never seen a branch break and the bird die, therefore trust your wings.”

“True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind and fluidity of thought.”

“There is absolutely nothing you're supposed to be doing.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

“One of the most powerful lessons failure teaches is how fast uninformed optimisim turns into informed pessimism.”