“It's not easy, but it's simple.”

“Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.”

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.”

“If you can look up, you can get up.”

“It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.”

“Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.”

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.”